New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-27
BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES.
.vmTATIoN OVER THE SPLENDID DISPLAY
OF NAVAL PROWESS.

CIVILIZATION Nv En- AnE o. NSA
OF NAVAL PROWESS.
-n-veson rYNpALL on Mr. GLADSTONE AND SIX VI
-,vxLYAN-rHE sPKNCxR-BAHING hAhn'A'h
~,onp AND LADY ABERDEEN RETURN home
Nwvr nxRNHARpTs GREAT sUCcEss-
MRS PolTYRs NEW Play
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rs,vrtsAt 1857, North American ccoH nseso'
LoNpoN. July 2e.-Nobody VINO oio N'..s nov ~
s,Uy witness the Naval Review !" op
vill ever know how beautiful tha' spe0'"s'o
ara how impressive as demonsus.on " ~
Ioroe. II opinions differ. az they ao'
sS. H.. rho ssv IL from the shores or from
-.S,,aa .h,y. saw little of the varied and con-
.-..,, .h.ngins beauty which passed. before the
- of those on the shirs In the procession 1t
,ss perhaps impaired as spectacle by the
Queens sudden caprice OF anchoring when hah
.sv down the avenue Of ironclads and sending
a, the commanders. This act, which upset the
,,ooramme. delayed proceedings and put hum
s,ed thousand people to much inconvenience,
ant the show In two. 1t gave, nevertheless, a
,erv striking proof of the reality of the Queens
authority.
II has become commonplace to say that no
.ucb force ever before was seen ahoat. But
. naval officer tells me England could year
=, two hence collect on the same spot fleet
ewice as powerful as this, so rapidly are new
ships of the strongest type coming forward
French German ard Dutch men-of-war were
,,eseut. The only big ship flying the American
sao was Mr.. vanderbilt's yacht Alone among
Yachts and half by strong persuasion and the
,;s,dino courtesy of the Admiralty, MIR. Wander
hi,t,s Yacht was allowed TO anchor with the
tors;eo ships of war. and she was the only
vesse, in the harbor net decked with Hags-a
fact wbisb has caused comment and Is
Nkc,v &c cause more when she makes her ap-
nearancc next week at Cowes. Tic American
division of spectators mustered in its numbers
three America Minister'S present On heard the
Hclicon, Mr. Phelps, Mr.. McI-anc and Mr. Curry,
ard the r ST of the legation party as telegraphed
on Saturday. Mr.. IIalstead was on board the
kubrates, bis first appearance as Peer OF the
Realm.
Most Of the accounts published are copions
and enthusiastic. Studied depreciation is the
note of one or two Radical journals. especially
Of that one which started and worked the
scare about the Navy Another remarks that
the returns Of the Review read like the report
Of q naval battle: three ships seriously injured
and three slightly damaged, four men killed,
six men in the hospital, gun disabled, boat
lost. The English loss at the bombardment OF
ures are exclusive. Nothing has been more
popular with the Erclish Nation generally than
this Review.
Professor Tyndall's latest letter on the polti-
cal situation is even more fiery than his pre-
yious one. 1t is addressed from his Airline
retreat TO friend in Glasgow. Professor 1Yn-
dali wants to helm defeat Sir Georce Irevelyan,
70 whose panegyric on the Liberal party he
replies that party politics were made for the
Nation, not the Nation for party politics. Mr..
Gladstone. who in Professor TvndalPs last was
desperate gamcster." has now become
"hoary rhetorician." GladstOnians resent these
efrusions. though they harm nobody. The
mountain air." saws their orcan. seems to have
acted on Professor Tyndall like wine." "Qufte
so.n neatly responds Tory this evening; in
vino veritas.'
The marriage OF the ever popular younger
Spencer is one of the events of the season and
adds brilliancy to it's rapidly approaching cnd.
His alliance with Barring is thought TO strengthe
the house cf Sp"' he others that
depend on land, feels slightly the stress OF the
times The Hon. Margaret Barine is the second
daughter of Lord Revclstole, head Of that house
of merchant princes. The Prince and Princess
of Wales paid their friend the compliment Of
coming
present at the wedding. The Spencers are sup
posed TO have come TO some extent under that
social ban which political hostility has sought
to enforce against the Gladstonians. Yet the
best section OF London society was present in
force Personal qualities put politics for the
time being in the background The presents
of the bride and bridegroom numbered noa'g
four hundred. including many from royal'i"s
Lord Rcvelstoke gave them pretty house in
Queen Street, Mayfair and Earl Spencer, to.
whom the bridegroom is heir presumptive, lends
them Althorpe for their honeymoon.
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen arrived
yesterday at their place at Dolls Iiill which
the Gadstones vacatd last week. They speak
In warm terms of the cordiality of their reception
In America, which they extremely regret they
we're obliged to leave after so short visit
Less than dozen theatres remain open in
London The Lyceum is the only one which
continues crowded in this continuing hot weather
Nine Sarah Bernhardt's extraordinary opening
performance of "Theodoran reused London en-
thusiasm for her to more than its old height
She has since played unequal'y, but has been
seen at her hest in Fedora" and again SNst
night in "Theodora,0 when the Iyceum was
filled with an audience almost as remarkable
In quality as the performance itself. Nine
sarah Bernhardt had spent Sunday and Monday
travelling to and from Paris where she had
been to engage an apartment on the Boulevard
pereire But sign OF fatigue from this
double journey appeared in her acting Monday
night, which proved a triumph for her second
only TO that Of last Monday. Among the Ameri-
cans present we're Mrs. Phelps. Mrs. Iloomes
Lowell and Mrs. Adair. For the English, con-
suit the Court Guide. Nine. Sarah Bernhardt
is in possession at the Hotel Mctropole of the
suite Of rooms lately occupied by Mr. Blaine.
Mrs. Potter's plans. which are not exactly
like the laws OF the Medes and Persians, now
look to a third London season in August. This
sounds like an appeal from the classes to the
masses, for Members of Parliament and the
expected classes will then have disappeared from
4 npdon ~. Civil War which will be remOde led